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Monday, January 29, 2018

How Donald Trump, America's Salesman-In-Chief, Won Over CEOs At Davos

Investor's Business Daily "Davos: Think Donald Trump doesn't know how to sell? Take a look at how he did in Davos, Switzerland, with the world's wealthy, left-leaning elites. As anyone in business will tell you, a great salesman needs a great product. Trump has that: America.

"As The Daily Caller reported, "In a stunning moment, one by one, European titans of industry from companies like Adidas, Siemens and Bayer went around the table to thank Trump for the passage of tax cuts and the easing of corporate tax burdens. Almost every CEO had a new U.S.-based investment or strategic business to announce."

"The president of Siemens, Joe Kaeser, said, 'since you have been so successful in tax reform we have decided to develop the next generation gas turbines in the United States.' "

"Not surprisingly, Trump has been harshly criticized by the left for failing to embrace "globalism." That criticism seemed a bit misplaced in Davos, however, simply with Trump's appearance there. He was the first president in 18 years to go to Davos, a gathering that President Obama gave short shrift." . . .

Gino Gambino at Moretti Underground

A Morally Pretentious #MeToo Movement

Feminism is less about expanding independence or strength, and more about expanding victimhood.

Arnold Ahlert

"One of the leading voices of the feminist movement is being excoriated for taking on the insufferably self-righteous perpetrators of the #MeToo movement.

“ 'I want, I’ve always wanted, to see women react immediately,” Germaine Greer stated during an interview in London, preceding a gala where she was named Australian of the Year in Britain. “In the old days, there were movies — the Carry On comedies, for example — which always had a man leering after women. And the women always outwitted him — he was a fool. We weren’t afraid of him and we weren’t afraid to slap him down.”

“ 'What makes it different is when the man has economic power, as Harvey Weinstein has. But if you spread your legs because he said, ‘Be nice to me and I’ll give you a job in a movie,’ then I’m afraid that’s tantamount to consent, and it’s too late now to start whingeing about that,” she added.

“ 'Whingeing” is the British version of “whine,” and there was no shortage of whining in response to Greer’s assertion. Columnist Tracy E. Gilchrist insists Greer appears “stuck in another era,” and that she “victim-blamed in the middle of making the point." Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, who believes older generations of feminists blazed a path for today’s social justice warriors, nonetheless characterizes Greer as "some older woman or other [who] is brought in to tell anyone who will listen how stupid the whole [#MeToo] endeavour is.' ” . . .

Added by TD at left:

This Joy Villa dress goes about as far as it can go

"Intolerance at Cornell: After my Fox News appearance, bullying and threats began . . ."

..."It got so bad I sought counseling."

The College Fix . . . "It is difficult to express conservative views as a college student without being called names, attacked personally, or even threatened by peers. I know because I’ve lived it.

The worst came after I appeared on Fox News in May to voice alarm over a new course at my Ivy League institution that deeply criticized Donald Trump while venerating Barack Obama.

“ 'Based on the syllabus it doesn’t seem like a fair conversation,” I said about the new government course offered this past fall at Cornell called “America Confronts the World.” The syllabus accused Trump of xenophobic nationalism while describing Obama as a pragmatic cosmopolitan.

“ 'If I were to walk into the classroom I don’t think I would feel comfortable expressing my views. I am somebody who likes to take a fair stance. I think it’s important that we are critical of the president but we also recognize the good that he’s done. I don’t think that would be encouraged in this class.”

'Asked by the Fox News host if there is an overwhelming liberal bias at Cornell, I said yes.

“ 'When you have a professor telling you what is right and what is incorrect rather than having the students decide for themselves, to research beyond the headline and analyze the situation, I think they just take whatever the professor tells them and they are not able to see the indoctrination,” I said." . . .

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Kamala Harris: Democrat Compares US Treatment of Muslims to Holocaust Victims on Holocaust Memorial Day

Our nation must be hated, say Democrats

Infidel Bloggers . . .

Jan 27, 2017

Kamala Harris

✔@KamalaHarris

Replying to @KamalaHarris

We can't turn our backs on the millions of refugees who are contributing to our country and our economy.

Kamala Harris

✔@KamalaHarris

During the Holocaust, we failed to let refugees like Anne Frank into our country. We can't let history repeat itself.

5:03 PM - Jan 27, 2017

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2,863 Retweets

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Meanwhile...Radical Imams Spewing Anti-Semitism in U.S. With Impunity

"Muslim clerics are threatening the lives of Jews from the pulpits of American mosques, and they are doing it with virtual impunity, say former US law-enforcement officials who worry that the rhetoric could lead to violent attacks.

"Over the past six months, at least five prominent US imams have been caught on tape preaching violence against Jews in sermons at mosques across America.

"Yet these radical preachers inciting anti-Semitic violence aren’t prosecuted or even permanently banished by the leadership of their mosques." . . .

Not even Kamala Harris?

Radical imams are spewing anti-Semitism in the US with impunity

President Trump Oficially Decreases the Debt to GDP Ratio in His First Year in Office – First Time in More than 50 Years!

Joe Hoft "The higher a country’s debt to GDP ratio, the less healthy the country’s economy. With the GDP numbers released yesterday, President Trump’s policies have officially decreased the Debt to GDP ratio by 1.2% in the President’s first year in office.

"In contrast, President Obama increased the US Debt to GDP ratio his first year in office by 14.5%. Obama increased the rate a total of 37% over his 8 years in office.

"Since his inauguration President Trump has focused his efforts on the security of the country and on the prosperity of its economy. The results of his actions are taking shape.

"The US GDP has increased each quarter in 2017 with the 4th Quarter GDP increasing to $19.739 trillion – the highest GDP for any country in world history.

"On the other hand, the President has curtailed US spending. The result is that the US Debt to GDP ratio decreased in 2017 from 105% to 104%.

"No President in more than 50 years has decreased the Debt to GDP ratio in his first year in office by more than 1%. The last President to do so was Nixon in 1969. Presidents Reagan and George W. Bush decreased the Debt to GDP ratio in their first years in office but by less than 1%.

"President Trump has the stock market at all time highs, jobs at all time highs and the debt to GDP ratio decreasing. As a result America is moving in the right direction for the first time in at least a decade."

Andrew Klavan: Three Reasons I Won't Be Talking About the Oscars

Andrew Klavan On The culture. "The Academy Award nominations were announced this week. Usually I try to respond to the announcement with some sort of satirical piece in which I give awards to movies that, for political reasons, never got made. For instance, this year I might have celebrated the movie about the brave cop who stands up to charges of racism in order to bring down a Muslim rape ring in Britain, or the one in which an angry father hunts down a murderous illegal immigrant after a jury lets him off to show how woke they are, or maybe the hilarious college comedy about the snowflake students who can't hear conservative ideas without going into therapy.

"But this year — forget it. The Oscars no longer matter enough to satirize. Here's(sic) three reasons why." . . . Outline below:

First, Movies Are No Longer America's Art Form
Second, Oscar Winners Make Carping Political Speeches and They Don't Know What They're Talking About
And Third, Politically Correct Quotas Make the Awards Meaningless

. . .

Illustrations added by TD

Joe Manchin Tells Nancy Pelosi To Grow Up And Stop The Immigration Rhetoric [VIDEO]

Daily Caller

"Democratic Senator Joe Manchin told House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to stop her divisive rhetoric on immigration and work with the Republican party, Sunday on CNN’s “State of The Union.”

"Host Jake Tapper played a clip of Pelsoi claiming President Donald Trump’s immigration plan seeks to “make America white again,” and then asked Manchin what he thought of the quote.

“ 'You know what, we don’t need that type of rhetoric on either side. From Nancy, Paul Ryan or anybody else” said Manchin, of West Virginia. “We have the wall. We need to repair the wall. We’ll need to build more wall. We need to do whatever we can to secure the borders.' ” . . .

Fox Exposes the Clintons in the Scandalous Series

Peter Barry Chowka

Fox News’ efforts with Scandalous represent a more serious and balanced appraisal of its subject than CNN’s hagiographic and one-sided take on recent decades, especially their excesses. (In reviewing CNN’s "The Nineties," Salon -- usually a friend of CNN -- opined that the series was “empty nostalgia for a decade we should let die.”)

"The excellent 7-part Fox News documentary series Scandalous, covering the scandals of the Clintons through the 42nd president’s impeachment trial in 1999, continues tonight with the premiere of part 2, “A Woman Called Paula.” The hour-long program airs at 8 P.M. E.T./P.T. At 7 P.M., part 1, “Up Crooked Creek” about the Whitewater scandal, which originally aired last Sunday, will be reprised.

"Fox hopes that Scandalous will be an ongoing series devoted to various political scandals in American history. The first 7 parts, devoted to the Clintons, total 280 minutes of content and go a long way towards helping to correct the largely sanitized and whitewashed record of Bill Clinton’s scandal-ridden career and presidency. Since he left office on January 20, 2001, the mainstream media, to my knowledge, has never attempted any serious appraisals of the underside of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s eight years in the White House and their earlier careers in Arkansas. The only exception was the PBS American Experience 2-part, 4-hour presidents’ series episode about Clinton which aired most recently in 2012. It covered Bill and Hillary’s entire career with only a minor focus on the scandals. Like most MSM appraisals of the Clintons, it reinforced the gauzy, airbrushed history of the 1990s, which witnessed the pumped up Internet dot com surge that helped to propel the temporary economic boomlet before the bubble started to burst in 2000, Bill Clinton’s last full year in office." . . .

Peter Barry Chowka is a veteran reporter and analyst of news on national politics, media, and popular culture. In addition to his writing, Peter has appeared as a guest commentator on NBC; PBS; the CBC; and, on January 4, 2018, the BBC.

New westerns in town rustle up gore and 21st-century mores after classics ride off into the sunset

Washington Times

"John Wayne might not recognize the westerns hitting screens large and small of late.
"The modern western isn’t just white hats and black hats. The violence is meaner (“Bone Tomahawk”) and the women more progressive (“Godless”), and the stories share sensibilities beyond 19th-century mores (“Hostiles”).
"The question for hard-core genre fans is clear: Is this an improvement over the westerns of yesteryear or a sorry sign of the times?
" An example of the “new” western: Christian Bale’s “Hostiles,” released this month, nds his circa 1892 Army captain protecting a Cheyenne chief against every instinct in his bones. The story spins on understanding one’s enemies and their cultural perspectives.
"Netix’s new drama “Godless” teems with classic western tropes as well as feminist heroines in a town where the men died in a mining accident.
" The 2015 indie western “Bone Tomahawk” features the kinds of grisly deaths you would expect from a Quentin Tarantino lm. And let’s not forget that director’s “The Hateful Eight,” which ladled on the gore as well as some woke lessons about racism.
"Even 2016’s “Jane Got a Gun” showcases a female protagonist ready to defend her turf by any means necessary." . . .

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders body-shamed by LA Times columnist

Timothy Bishop

Repeat from November 2017: Fox News because what other source would cover these things? . . . "It’s curious to think what Horsey, who is politically correct when it’s convenient, would feel about fat-shaming Sanders on a day when it doesn’t fit his anti-Trump agenda. It should be noted that Horsey doesn’t only shame the appearance of females, as he has mocked Trump in cartoons, calling him a “bloated orange mess,” among other things.

"The L.A. Times and Horsey did not immediately respond to separate requests for comment.

"Shortly after Fox News asked for comment, the Times removed all references to Sanders’ appearance and added a note from Horsey.

" 'I want to apologize to Times readers – and to Sarah Huckabee Sanders -- for a description that was insensitive and failed to meet the standards of our newspaper. It also failed to meet the expectations I have for myself. It surely won’t be my last mistake, but this particular error will be scrupulously avoided in my future commentaries. I’ve removed the offending description,” he wrote." . . .

The original Tunnel Wall post wherein we commented:

I'm sure cartoonist Horsey, a gifted artist and occasional honest critic of Obama policies, must enjoy the social scene among the LA elite and his cartoons must certainly place him high on the Hollywood social register. I do not know the man and have not chosen to read his thoughts other than those in this post, but figure he must enjoy the thought of his work hanging on walls in leftist gathering places.This cartoon below surely ingratiated him to the Obamas and their sychophants. The Tunnel Dweller.

If Horsey attends a Hollywood award show, this stuff will earn him the backslaps and affection of those there. Maybe even a bro hug if Obama is there. TC

Not only Sarah: Melania Trump vs. the media

"If Trump wins,” a commenter wrote on a blog in 2016, "I do not envy what Melania Trump and Barron Trump will have to go through."

How prescient. A year after the President's inauguration, media jackals continue to declare open season on the gracious First Lady and her innocent 12-year-old son.

From CNN: . . . (Where else but the recommended channel of the California school system?)